The Doctor's Two Moms


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Let's face it Doctor Who is never going to have a super consistent singular canon. The only way it could all possibly make sense together is as a complicated mess of alternate universes and timelines with jokes thrown in. Still as a massive fan I will bend time and space to make it all make sense. This brings me to a few major issues. Firstly the Doctor is regularly written as being a human from space, in the very earliest stories. He's shown to have one heart. He seems to refer to himself as human in The Sensorites when there is no in story reason he would do so. Furthermore in the original (unaired) pilot episode it is actually stated that the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan are humans from the 49th century.


As the series progressed the Doctor's alien identity became more consistently established and by 1989 there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the Doctor was a two hearted Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. In the 1996 movie it is stated multiple times that  the Doctor is half human. It is specifically mentioned by the eighth Doctor that this human heritage comes from his mother. Regardless of what you think that is what is said. The Doctor had a human parent. This can be used to explain away much of the earlier narrative inconsistency. The early Doctors were more biologically human than later Doctors who are either completely physically Time Lord or in the case of their eighth incarnation have a human iris etc. 

But this isn't the end of it. In The End of Time we meet a Time Lady who was written as being none other than the Doctor's mother. So who gave birth to the Doctor? The answer is that the woman referenced in the 1996 TV movie did. The woman we see in The End of Time is his first incarnation's biological father now regenerated into a female form. IF we choose to give any weight to the plans for the eighth Doctor TV series in the nineties that would make her the Time Lord Ulysses. What do you think? Is the Doctor a Time Lord through and through or do you have more in common with them than you may have once thought?

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